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Spring 2010

Urban Planning and Policy Development

Rutgers University

16:762:699:75127 (doctoral students)

34:970:670:75128 (masters students with instructors permission)

Tuesdays 9:5012:30, Civic Square

Kathe Newman

Urban Planning and Policy Development

33 Livingston Avenue, NB Room 358knewman@rutgers.edu

Overview

We will explore how cities are governed and how political economy shapes theproduction and reproduction of the city. Readings and discussions will focus onuntangling the complex and often invisible political economic structures, processes, andrelationships that shape the city. We will unpack the oftenheard phrase, the way thingswork. In this class well consider the social, political, and economic infrastructure, how ithas changed over time, and how the various actors, institutions, and relationships form,change, and are shaped by actors at multiple scales and in turn reshape those scales.

Requirements

This is a seminar with an intensive reading list. Read the texts carefully and completelybefore coming to class. Write 4, 45 page reflection papers. Think about and reflect onthe course readings and engage with the literature. Submit your reflections to the classSakai website and read the contributions from your colleagues. You can discuss theissues online, in person, and in class. The class will conclude with a take home final exam.

Grading

Participation 30%

Reflection Papers 30%

Exam 40%

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Schedule

January 19. Introduction

Merrifield, Andy. 2002. Dialectical Urbanism. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Part I. From Above

January 26. The UrbanHarvey, David. 1989. The Urban Experience. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UniversityPress.

Recommended

Castells, Manuel. The Urban Question. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Dear, Michael and Scott, Allen. 1981. Urbanization and Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society.

Methuen.

February 2. The Capitalist City

Scobey, David. 2002. Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape.Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Recommended

Harvey, David. 2003. Paris, Capital of Modernity. New York: Routledge

Sinclair, Upton. 1905 (1960). The Jungle. New York: Penguin.

Cronon, William 1991. Natures Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton and

Company.

Blackmar, Elizabeth. 1989. Manhattan For Rent, 17851850. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

February 9. Globalization

Roy, Ananya and Alsayyad, Nezar. Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from theMiddle East, Latin America, and South Asia. New York: Lexington Books.

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Castells, Manuel. Rise of the Network Society.

Sassen, Saskia. 2001. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.

Sassen, Saskia. 1998. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and

Money. New York: The New Press.

Levinson, Marc. 2006. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the

Economy Bigger. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sites. William. 2003. Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban

Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

February 16. Financialization

Fisher, Melissa and Downey, Greg. Ed. 2006. Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflectionson the New Economy. Durham: Duke University Press.

Recommended

Sinclair, Timothy. 2003. Global Monitor: Bond Rating Agencies, New Political Economy 8(1):147161.

Harvey, David. The Limits to Capital. New York: Verso. Chapters 9 & 10.

Epstein, Gerald. Ed. 2005. Financialization and the World Economy. Northampton, MA: Edward

Elgar.

Leyshon, Andrew and Thrift. Nigel. 1997. Money Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation.

New York: Routledge.

Mitchell, Katharyne and Beckett, Katherine. 2009. Securing the Global City: Crime, Consulting,

Risk, and Ratings in the Production of Urban Space. International Journal of Global Legal Studies

v15 1: 75100.

Part II. From Below

February 23. Urban Revolution

Lefebvre, Henri. 2003. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Holloway, John. Change the World Without Taking Power. The Meaning of Revolution Today. 2nd Ed.

March 2. Uneven Development

Sugrue, Thomas. 2005. Origins of the Urban Crisis. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Recommended

Isenberg, Alison. 2004. Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who

Made It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Satter, Beryl. 2009. Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban

America. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.

Harvey, David and Chatterjee, Lata. 1974. Absolute Rent and the Structuring of Space by

Governmental and Financial Institutions.Antipode. 6(1): 2236.

Beauregard, Robert. 2003. Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities. New York:

Routledge.

Gillette, Howard. 2005. Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a PostIndustrial City.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hirsh, Arnold. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 19401960. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press.

March 9. (moved from earlier in term due to pub date)

Arrighi, Giovanni. 2010 [1994] The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our

Times. New York: Verso.

March 16. Spring Break

March 23. Economic Rupture and the Urban

Tabb, William. 1982. The Long Default: New York City and the Urban Fiscal Crisis. New York:Monthly Review Press.

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OConners, James. 2001. Fiscal Crisis of the State. Transaction Publishers.

Cowie, Jefferson. 1999. Capital Moves: RCAs 70Year Quest for Cheap Labor. Cornell University Press.

Beauregard, Robert. When American Became Suburban. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota

Press.

Peck, Jamie, and Adam Tickell, 1994. Searching for a New Institutionalist Fix: The afterFordist

Crisis and the GlobalLocal Disorder. In Amin, Ash. Ed. PostFordism: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.

March 30. Urban Restructuring in the New Economy

Meyer. Michael. 2008. The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City

Transformed. Walker and Company.

Recommended

Mehta, Suketu. 2004. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. New York: Knopf.

Angotti, Tom. 2008. New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate.

Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Fainstein, Susan. 1994. The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York.

Oxford: Blackwell.

William Sites. 2003. Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban

Community. University of Minnesota.

Neuwirth, Robert. 2006. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World. New York:

Routledge.

Smith, Neil. 1996. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. New York:

Routledge.

Wyly, Elvin and Dan Hammel. 1999. Islands of Decay in Seas of Renewal: Urban Policy and the

Resurgence of Gentrification. Housing Policy Debate 10:711771.

Lees, Loretta, Slater, Tom, and Wyly, Elvin. Gentrification. New York: Routledge.

Hartman, Chester. 2002. City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco. Berkeley: University of

California Press.

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Atkinson, Rowland and Bridge, Gary. 2005. Gentrification in a Global Context. New York: Routledge.

Steinberg, Phi and Rob Shields. Ed. 2008. What is a City? Rethinking the Urban After Hurricane

Katrina. University of Georgia Press.

Part III. Urban Governance and Community Response

April 6. Theories of Urban Politics

Davies, Jonathan and Imbroscio, David. 2009. Theories of Urban Politics. 2nd Ed. LosAngeles: Sage Publications.

Recommended

Peterson, Paul. 1981. City Limits. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Swanstrom, Todd. The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich and the Challenge of Urban

Populism.

Harvey, David. 1989. From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban

Governance in Late Capitalism. Geografiska Annaler71B(1), 317.

April 13. The Growth Machine

Logan, John and Molotch, Harvey. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place.Berkeley: University of California Press.

Recommended

Andrew Jonas and David Wilson. 1999. The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two

Decades Later. Albany: SUNY Press.

April 20. Neoliberalism and ResponseLeitner, Helga, Peck, Jamie, and Sheppard, Eric. 2007. Contesting Neoliberalism: UrbanFrontiers.

Recommended

Antipode Volume 11

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Harvey, David. 2005.A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

April 27. Critical Urbanism

Merrifield, Andy and Erik Swyngedouw. Ed. 1997. The Urbanization of Injustice.Washington Square, New York: New York University Press.

Recommended

CITY Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Policy Action. Special issue: Cities for people, not profit.

Guest Ed. Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer. V13 23 JuneSept 2009. http://

www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/CCIT_special_issue_2009_leaflet.pdf

The Right to the City. The Entitled and the Excluded. http://www.urbanreinventors.net/

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